Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Have always said the purpose of the meeting was, so get information on Hillary Clinton. The original trump lie about this meeting was that the meeting was about russian adoptions. But the president s lawyers were forced to admit in a letter to the Special Prosecutor that President Trump dictated a false statement to the New York Times about that meeting knowing it was false, a statement saying the meeting was about russian adoptions. The legal implications of the president s tweet are gravely threatening to the president s son. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. But it is not done all the time in politics, and its totally, totally illegal. If it is a meeting with foreign citizens trying to help the Trump Campaign. Federal law makes it a crime for a Foreign National to, quote, directly or indirectly help an American Campaign wi
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. The meeting was, so get information on Hillary Clinton. The original trump lie about this meeting was that the meeting was about russian adoptions. But the president s lawyers were forced to admit in a letter to the Special Prosecutor that President Trump dictated a false statement to the New York Times about that meeting knowing it was false, a statement saying the meeting was about russian adoptions. The legal implications of the president s tweet are gravely threatening to the president s son. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. But it is not done all the time in politics, and its totally, totally illegal. If it is a meeting with foreign citizens trying to help the Trump Campaign. Federal law makes it a crime for a Foreign National to, quote, directly or indirectly help an American Campaign with financial contributions or, q
federal election law recognizes opposition research as, quote, a thing of value. federal election law makes it a crime to, quote, solicit, accept or receive a thing of value to a campaign for foreign national. the e-mail traffic setting up the meeting in trump tower during the campaign with russian nationals shows donald trump jr. eagerly soliciting what they call dirt on hillary clinton after they had clinton dirt to contribute to the trump campaign. the president s tweet yesterday said that the meeting, quote, went nowhere. the trump line of defense about the meeting was that the russians didn t hand over any dirt on hillary clinton. as we sit here tonight, we don t know if that s true. we don t know what happened in the meeting. we don t really know what happened after the meeting. we don t know whether the russians directly handed over
other thing of value. federal election law recognizes opposition research as, quote, a thing of value. federal election law makes it a crime to, quote, solicit, accept or receive a thing of value to a campaign for foreign national. the e-mail traffic setting up the meeting in trump tower during the campaign with russian nationals shows donald trump jr. eagerly soliciting what they call dirt on hillary clinton after they had clinton dirt to contribute to the trump campaign. the president s tweet yesterday said that the meeting, quote, went nowhere. the trump line of defense about the meeting was that the russians didn t hand over any dirt on hillary clinton. as we sit here tonight, we don t know if that s true. we don t know what happened in the meeting. we don t really know what happened after the meeting. we don t know whether the russians directly handed over dirt to the trump campaign about